| Heavily shaped by the generation of the 1960s, most of us may become mere simulacrums of our mentors. |
| They are pop cultural simulacra, mere shadows of Cagney's tragic anti-hero and Marlon Brando's brooding Don. |
| Kitsch, using for raw material the debased and academicized simulacra of genuine culture, welcomes and cultivates this insensibility. |
| Despite the obvious codes of virtuality at play, of simulation and simulacra, the image works. |
